Never really was interested in Harry Potter.....magic is not given a good wrap in the Bible so I tend to avoid it in entertainment.
The bible, and not least the NT, is full of magic ─ the Resurrection, the other miracles, prophecy and so on.
At least ET was an extra terrestrial.....the Bible speaks about extra terrestrials you know....
You mean angels, I take it?
Sometimes people get hurt more than they realize....especially if there is a 'price' to pay for all that fun...
The solution lies in education above all, and then the biochemistry.
No sorry, I don't buy that. First of all I believe the whips were to drive out the animals; the sellers would have been in hot pursuit.
The author of John disagrees with you:
2: 14 In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers at their business.15 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all, with the sheep and oxen, out of the temple; and he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.
That's no way to treat people going lawfully about their business. He's just a thug.
And secondly it was not legitimate business that these ones were carrying out at all.....they were extorting money from their 'brothers' by overcharging them for sacrificial animals, selling them right there in the Temple.
They were doing nothing that the Temple authorities didn't know about and approve of. If Jesus wants to take the law into his own hands, then we should all follow his example and smash what we don't like, no matter how usual, lawful or traditional, you say?
Nonsense. Mary and Joseph were betrothed, which in Jewish circles meant as good as married.
You really must read your own book one day. It says neither the Jesus of Matthew nor the Jesus or Luke is the son of Mary's betrothed. Jesus' birth is expressly the result of extramarital (extrapremarital?) insemination. If Mary and Joseph are as good as married then Jesus' birth is the fruit of adultery. No other interpretation is possible,
Where do you get your ideas? There is usually nothing to back them up.
Matthew 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit;
Luke 1:26 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27 to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. [...] 30 And the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. [...] 34 And Mary said to the angel, "How shall this be, since I have no husband?" 35 And the angel said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.
Extramarital (or extrapremarital) relations, and since you say they were as good as married, adulterous. Any questions?